Head of the Canadian Medical Association Dr. Sandy Buchman, seen in Toronto in 2019, says health officials are doing all they can, but that more should have been done long before the novel coronavirus arrived.The head of the organization representing Canada’s doctors says the health care system was “not prepared” for the current pandemic, and doesn’t see why the federal government doesn’t fully acknowledge the weaknesses exposed by the COVID-19 crisis.
Doctors have questioned whether federal health authorities acted quickly enough after the virus emerged in late December. Through much of January and February, the government said the risk of an outbreak in Canada was low. Kulvinder Kaur Gill, who represents 10,000 doctors in the group Concerned Ontario Doctors, said she and her colleagues were devastated Thursday by the news that a custodian who worked in a Brampton hospital has died from COVID-19, believed to be the first death of a health care worker in the province.
That is not what many hospitals and provincial governments assumed at the outset of the pandemic, given that the stockpile has for decades been intended as an emergency backstop. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said his government was told federal stockpiles were not as large as initially thought. Many assumptions laid out in the federal government’s 2006 pandemic plan were prescient, however, including instructions to act quickly to stem the spread of the virus and to ensure that the country had, at minimum, “a consistent 16-week supply” of medical equipment stockpiled. “There will be shortages,” it warned.
globepolitics Maybe “put a pin in it” and play the blame game later, after we have lots of testing and PPE in place? Thanks!
globepolitics Globe spun story from Day One.Trudeau and team of race baiting incompetents: Hajdu, Tam, Blair, etc. Legault now proposing exact thing as realDonaldTrump to return quickly and is praised by lackeys in MSM in Canada, too dumb to see how hypocritical they are.CoronaVirusCanada
globepolitics Not the time for the blame game. Why not help each other in difficult times? Stop politics. Focus energy on the task at hand. It’s enormous. Save lives and the economy. Blame game deferred.
globepolitics 16 Tons Cdn PPE ✈️ China 🇨🇳
globepolitics Let's keep our eyes on the ball here, it ain't over till its over But when it is over we will not forget how our political 'leaders' handled this
globepolitics Tragic when you consider the shortcomings after SARS 1 were investigated and reported.
globepolitics How could we have thought we wouldn’t have an outbreak as 10s of thousands of people enter the country every day? This wasn’t logical. It was essentially belief in the Easter bunny
globepolitics And financial. The Trudeau govt squandered money on stupid politically correct programs. And now we're all paying for being unprepared
globepolitics There's no mystery here. Successive governments of whatever partisan affiliation were pressured by their allies as well as their opponents to cut costs. Pandemic preparation costs were and still are invisible costs to the vast majority of people and were very easy to cut.
kinsellawarren globepolitics Not even the Globe could bury this one. Still a bit cautious about being too harsh on the incompetence of their Lib masters though. Publisher will probably get his hands slapped by Butts just the same.
globepolitics What good does this criticism do now? None! There will be plenty of time for recriminations later. This doc should be spending his time helping instead of criticizing. It’s like Laura Stone trying to bait Doug Ford into criticizing the feds. Serves no purpose and Ford ignored her
globepolitics I’ve seen healthcare workers who have to masks several hours a day leaves horrible imprints on their faces. How come no company can make those helmets with oxygen the ones in movie Outbreak.
globepolitics Here! Here! I've been asking the same question! Now that homemade masks are popular, could you also now admit that everyone should be wearing them? If they do, the medical people will need fewer medical supplies because there will be fewer sick people. Win - win!
globepolitics That's awfully racist of them
globepolitics Government after government did little or nothing after SARS 17 plus years ago. What matters is Canada not your damn party. The true believers need to remember Canada first their party second.
globepolitics Lack of preparation in keeping borders wide open for months! LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
globepolitics The explanation is known by everyone-ah we just happen to be anal retentive PC, inept and incompetent.
globepolitics No preparation?
globepolitics Trudeau can explain why he gave 16 tonnes of medical equipment to China.
globepolitics Canada has never seen the kind of Cover Up we're witnessing right now by Trudeau and the Liberals Trudeau Lied. People Died. This is not going to end well cdnpoli ableg onpoli COVIDー19 covid19Canada
globepolitics Those two stupid women have nothing about foresight, neither naive and stupid Trudeau. Otherwise, Canada could not be in such a situation. Asia's out-broke gave Canada at least 2 months to prepare. But the stupids wasted it.
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